Quote Originally Posted by alex_ro View Post
What they don't understand is that, even to this day, the copernican principle was never proved (just assumed). The same for the cosmological principle ("working assumption").

So in my view, it's for them to demonstrate their assumptions...
This is true, but I think most would rather just not think about it! For a group of people like we have assembled here, this should be a huge discrepancy which helps to unmask the true state of leadership, government, the establishment, etc. We have accepted as true some principles, and even elevated them to religious status. Max Tegmark would rather postulate infinite universes, than consider the possibility that the Copernican Principal may be false- even though most our physical evidence suggests we are central. This would indicate two possibilities:

1. We are central (or very near it)
2. Everywhere appears central

This indicates that science, in the name of its philosophical views, chooses consciously to exclude 1/2 the possible answers in terms of the centrality question. Also, no measurement to date has established our translation or rotation.